Rice Production Worldwide

ISBN-13: 9783319475141 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 563 str.

Bhagirath Chauhan; Khawar Jabran; Gulshan Mahajan

Opis

This book addresses aspects of rice production in rice-growing areas of the world including origin, history, role in global food security, cropping systems, management practices, production systems, cultivars, as well as fertilizer and pest management. As one of the three most important grain crops that helps to fulfill food needs all across the globe, rice plays a key role in the current and future food security of the world. Currently, no book covers all aspects of rice production in the rice-growing areas of world. This book fills that gap by highlighting the diverse production and management practices as well as the various rice genotypes in the salient, rice-producing areas in Asia, Europe, Africa, the Americas, and Australia. Further, this text highlights harvesting, threshing, processing, yields and rice products and future research needs. Supplemented with illustrations and tables, this text is essential for students taking courses in agronomy and production systems as well as for agricultural advisers, county agents, extension specialists, and professionals throughout the industry.

Spis treści

1. Current Status, Challenges, and Opportunities in Rice Production

Rajendra Prasad, Yashbir Singh Shivay, and Dinesh Kumar

2. Rice Production in China

Lixiao Nie and Shaobing Peng

3. Rice Production in India

Gulshan Mahajan, Vivek Kumar, Bhagirath S. Chauhan, and G. Mahajan

4. European Rice

Hansjoerg Kraehmer, Cyrille Thomas, and Francesco Vidotto

5. Rice Production in Africa

Negussie Zenna, Kalimuthu Senthilkumar, and Moussa Sie

6. Rice Production in the Americas

Muthu Bagavathiannan, Vijay Singh, Shane Zhou, Zahoor Ganie, Bernal Valverde, Luis Avila, Enio Marchesan, Aldo Merotto, Gonzalo Zorrilla, Nilda Burgos, and Jason Norsworthy

7. Rice Production in Australia

Ali Ahsan Bajwa, Bhagirath Singh Chauhan

8. Rice Production Systems

A.N. Rao, S.P. Wani, M. S. Ramesha and J.K. Ladha

 

9. Domestication and Development of Rice Cultivars

Tahir Hussain Awana, Mostafa Ahmadizadehb,c, Khawar Jabrand, Saima Hashime, and Bhagirath Singh Chauhan

10. Fertilizer Management in Rice

Bijay-Singh and V.K. Singh

11. Water Management in Rice

Avishek Datta, Hayat Ullah, and Zannatul Ferdous

12. Insect Herbivores of Rice: their Natural Regulation and Ecologically-Based Management

Finbarr G. Horgan

13. Importance and Management of Rice Diseases: A Global Perspective

G. S. Laha, Ram Singh, D. Ladhalakshmi, S. Sunder, M. Srinivas Prasad, C. S. Dagar, and V. Ravindra Babu

14. Rice Weeds and their Management

Vivek Kumar, Gulshan Mahajan and Bhagirath S. Chauhan

15. Ecology and Management of Apple Snails in Rice

Finbarr G. Horgan

16. Harvesting, Threshing, Processing, and Products of Rice 

Muhammad Riaz, Tariq Ismail, and Saeed Akhtar

17. Rice Physiology

Ahmad Nawaz and Muhammad Farooq

18. Role of Biotechnology in Rice Production

Akshaya K Biswal, Md. Shamim, Kevin Cruzado, Gericho Soriano, Abhijit Ghatak, MitchellRey Toleco, and Prashant Vikram

O autorze

Bhagirath Chauhan, Principal Research Fellow, The University of Queensland, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, Toowoomba, Australia

Khawar Jabran, Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Sciences, Duzce University, Duzce, Turkey 

Gulshan Mahajan, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiāna, India